Geopolitics Category

Eric Zuesse The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists published a study, on 1 March 2017, which opened: The US nuclear forces modernization program has been portrayed to the public as an effort to ensure the reliability and...

I know that most of us here are concerned about World War 3. I want to comment on this as well as terms and meaning For example, many say there will never be a WW3 because the elites are in bed together. This is not any...

MIDDLE EAST ONLINE Syrian regime forces were on the verge Tuesday of seizing a major rebel district of Aleppo as Moscow and Washington traded barbs over stalled efforts to end fighting in the battle-worn city. After...

FOX NEWS Iran threatened to shoot down two US Navy surveillance aircraft flying close to Iranian territory in the Persian Gulf over the weekend, the latest in a series of recent provocations between Iran and the US...

Makia Freeman, Contributor Waking Times The 911 attacks that happened in the USA on September 11th, 2001, did indeed change the world in a way that hardly any other event has. As we arrive at the 15th anniversary of...

Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed sanctions, terrorism, NATO and German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s dislike of dogs in a wide-ranging interview with German newspaper Bild published Monday. The Russian...

Last week, lawmakers adopted China’s first-ever dedicated anti-terrorism law. The new law’s most interesting provision, as far as foreign observers are concerned, is an article authorizing the Chinese...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said Friday that his country was ready for war if provoked by “invasive” outsiders, the Associated Press reported. Kim, while addressing the nation in his New Year’s speech, also...

On December 27, China’s National People’s Congress passed the country’s much-debated anti-terrorism legislation. Although the text is still being translated into English, numerous analyses have already emerged,...

China on Sunday adopted its first counter-terrorism law that grants overarching powers to security agencies, allows the military to venture overseas on counter-terror operations and requires technology firms to give...

By Dave Hodges Being a former college basketball coach, I marvel at the skill of a good strategist who can carry out a game plan. Vladimir Putin would have been a great college basketball coach, a masterful poker...

A new electronic warfare variant of the Shenyang Aircraft Corporation J-16 twin-seat strike fighter made its first flight on December 18, IHS Jane’s reported, citing Chinese sources. The aircraft would add significant...

Iran fulfilled a key commitment under its nuclear deal with the U.S. and other world powers on Monday when it shipped more than 25,000 pounds of low-enriched uranium to Russia. Secretary of State John Kerry praised the...

The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 gave birth to a dangerous American ideology called neoconservativism. The Soviet Union had served as a constraint on US unilateral action. With the removal of this constraint on...

Senior U.S. military commanders on Wednesday accused Iran’s military of “highly provocative” actions in firing unguided rockets 1,500 yards from ships including an American aircraft carrier. The USS...

Israel plans to deploy its new medium-range missile interceptor David’s Sling by mid-2016 after the U.S.-backed system passed final trials, defense officials said on Monday. David’s Sling is designed to...

China harvested livers, kidneys, corneas and even hearts from tens of thousands religious prisoners while they were still alive and the world is paying no attention, according to a new documentary. Rumours of the live...

The Russian military has deployed its mobile, ground-based electronic warfare system Krasukha-4 in Syria, according to footage placed on Russia’s Zvezda news network.At the beginning of the video (the 6th...

The Russian Defense Ministry says its airstrikes in Syria are NOT targeting civilian infrastructure. The comments come a day after an opposition Turkmen group accused Moscow of killing dozens of civilians in its...

Christopher Greene of AMTV interviews Senator John McCain on war in Syria (originally uploaded on September 6th, 2013). The Huffington Post reported on the exchange. “Mr. Mcain was challenged on Syria by...

Vladimir Putin has conscripted 150,000 new troops into the Russian army as the country unleashed a new wave of airstrikes in Syria – while and Iran and Islamist group Hezbollah prepare for a major ground...

Russia’s military intervention in Syria has expanded radically in two directions. DEBKAfile’s military and intelligence sources report that China sent word to Moscow Friday, Oct. 2, that J-15 fighter bombers would...

Israel received advance notice before Russia launched air strikes against ISIS in syria, according to defense sources. France and the United States have said that the strikes appear to have been carried out in the Homs...

Chinese President Xi Jinping promised the United Nations General Assembly to provide the organization’s peacekeeping standby force with an additional 8,000 troops, alongside the establishment of a $1 billion “peace...

An American spy plane had a near miss after a Chinese jet intercepted it over the Yellow Sea in a dangerous mid-air stunt. The US RC-135 had been gathering electronic intelligence when the interceptor flew in front –...